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SARA FORSDYKE

|2178 Angell Hall | |

|435 S.State Street | |

|Ann Arbor, MI | |

|48109-1003 | |

|734 936-6101 | |

|forsdyke@umich.edu | |

Major Fields of Research and Teaching:

Ancient Greek History, especially democracy, slavery and the law; ancient Greek language and literature; ancient Greek historiography and oratory; comparative history and the history of non-elites and marginal groups.

Employment:

2012 -present Professor, Department of Classical Studies and History, University of

Michigan

2014 - 2017 Chair, Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan

2010-2013: Director, Interdepartmental PhD Program in Greek and Roman History,

University of Michigan.

2006-2012: Associate Professor, Department of Classical Studies and History,

University of Michigan.

1998- 2006: Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies, University of

Michigan.

1997-8: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan

1996-7: Lecturer, Classics Department, Princeton University

Education:

1997: Ph.D., Classics, Princeton University

1994: M.A., Classics, Princeton University

1991: M.A., Classics, Queen's University (Canada)

1990: A.B., with honors, Classics, Harvard University

1989: Summer School, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece.

1989: Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, Italy.

Publications:

Books:

Exile, Ostracism and Democracy: The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient Greece. Princeton University Press, 2005.

Slaves Tell Tales and Other Episodes in the Politics of Popular Culture in Ancient Greece. Princeton University Press, 2012.

Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greece. forthcoming, Cambridge University Press.

Co-Edited Volume:

R. Balot, S.Forsdyke and E.Foster eds. The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides. Oxford, 2017.

Work in Progress:

Democratic Justice: The Jury Trial in Ancient Greece and Modern America (book)

“Early Greek Democracy” in The Cambridge History of Democracy (chapter in edited volume)

Articles & Book Chapters

"From Aristocratic to Democratic Ideology and Back Again: The Thrasybulus Anecdote in Herodotus' Histories and Aristotle's Politics." Classical Philology 94 .4 (1999) 361-372.

"Exile, Ostracism and the Athenian Democracy" California Studies in Classical Antiquity 19.2 (2000) 232-263.

"Athenian Democratic Ideology and Herodotus' Histories" American Journal of Philology 122.3 (2001) 333-362.

"Herodotus on Greek History, 525-480 " in Irene de Jong, Egbert Bakker and Hans van Wees eds. A Companion to Herodotus. (Leiden, 2002) 521-549.

"Revelry and Riot in Archaic Megara: Democratic Disorder or Ritual Reversal?" Journal of Hellenic Studies 125 (2005) 73-92.

"Herodotus, political history and political thought" in C. Dewald and J. Marincola eds. The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 224-241

"Land, Labor and Economy in Solonian Athens: Breaking the Impasse between History and Archaeology" J.H. Blok and A.P.M.H. Lardinois eds., Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches, Leiden: Brill, 2006. 334-350.

"Street Theater and Popular Justice in Ancient Greece: Shaming, Stoning and Starving Offenders Inside and Outside the Courts" Past and Present 201(2008) 3-50.

"The Uses and Abuses of Tyranny" for R.Balot ed. The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Political Thought. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 231-246.

"Civic Institutions" in G. Boys-Stones, B. Graziosi and P.Vasunia eds. The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies. Oxford, 2009. 197-210.

“Exile” in M. Gagarin et al. eds. Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford University Press, 2010.

"Peer-Polity Interaction and Cultural Competition in Sixth-Century Greece" in N.Fisher and H. van Wees eds. Competition in the Ancient World. Wales Classical Press, 2011. 147-174.

“Born from the Earth: The Political Uses of an Athenian Myth” in C.Faraone and A.Seri eds. Imagined Beginnings: Ancient Cosmogonies, Theogonies and Anthropogonies in the Eastern Mediterranean. Special edition of the Journal for Ancient Near Eastern Religions 12 (2012) 119-141.

“The Impact of Democracy on Communal Life” in J.P.Arnason, K.Raaflaub and P. Wagner eds. The Greek polis and the invention of democracy: a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations. Blackwell, 2013, 227-259.

“Slaves, Stories and Cults: Conflict Resolution between Masters and Slaves in Ancient Greece” Common Knowledge 21.1 (2015).

“Thucydides’ Historical Method” in R. Balot, S.Forsdyke and E. Foster eds. The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides (2017) 19-38.

“Ancient and Modern Conceptions of the Rule of Law” in M.Canevaro, A.Erskine and J.Ober eds. Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science. Edinburgh, 2018.

“Slave Agency and Citizenship in Classical Athens” in Symposion: Gesellschaft für griechische und hellenistische Rechtsgeschichte. Vienna, 2019.

“Slave Agency and the Law in Classical Athens” in S. Gartland and D.Tandy eds. Voiceless, Invisible and Countless: Subordinate Experience in Ancient Greece, 800-300 BCE. (forthcoming)

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